by Sharon Ernst | Aug 27, 2025 | Starting a Farm
It was raining this morning which wasn’t in the forecast. I don’t mind at all. I’m so sick and tired of looking at all the brown from this hot dry summer we’ve had. (It was enough rain to make the cows want to take shelter under an ash tree...
by Sharon Ernst | Aug 26, 2025 | Starting a Farm
Last year was the first time we turned our attention to our pastures, and wow, it turns out 22 acres is a lot to take care of! You might think, like I did, that’s it’s just grass so hay it or graze it. How hard could it be? That’s how we thought about it for the...
by Sharon Ernst | Mar 17, 2025 | Nature Notes
My first sighting of Pacific tree frog eggs…the first of many! Once the weeks-long freeze ended, the Pacific tree frogs came down out of the woods to our wet areas to call out to each other and breed. This has been going on every year since we moved here, and...
by Sharon Ernst | Mar 14, 2025 | Nature Notes
It’s mid-March and the annual bird migration has begun. Around here, the robins returned in February, and I thought I saw a turkey vulture. As the weeks go by, I will hear plenty of different types of birdsong in the woods, letting me know the seasonal residents have...
by Sharon Ernst | Feb 18, 2025 | Musings, Starting a Farm
In my work world, where I make online classes to teach people business writing skills, I constantly preach slowing down. Why do I preach slowing down? Because a lot of sloppy business writing happens when people are just going too fast. We have this cult of busy-ness...
